Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

by Timothy J. Keller

Our particular church community lives as “resident aliens” in a huge city that is about 3 percent Christian.

the Lord God claims responsibility for carrying his people into exile in the first place.

Change from Change to 1. Individual salvation The gospel changes everything (hearts, community, and world) 2. Being good Being saved 3. Cheap grace Costly grace (awareness of our sin) 4. Heaven is “up there” Christ will come again—to this earth 5. God is value-add to us In God’s providence, we could contribute to his work on earth

6. Idols of this world Living for God 7. Disdain of this world Engaged in this world 8. “Bowling alone” Accepting community 9. People matter Institutions matter 10. Christian superiority God can work through whomever he wants (common grace)

A heaven with just our souls floating around is very different from one in which we’re living in the most beautiful city we could imagine on this earth: a city in which our paintings of trees (see the Introduction) or our clever new tools are more perfect than we could imagine them in this broken world.

Gotham Fellowship

Studying original sources such as Augustine, Calvin, Owen, and Luther, the Fellows grow in their ability to apply the gospel to their hearts, their relationships, and their understanding of their vocation.

Entrepreneurship Initiative (Ei)

helping build an ecosystem of organizations and institutions that serve the city.

Arts Ministries

Os Guinness’s The Call or Al Wolters’s Creation Regained

Also the author of The Meaning of Marriage, Generous Justice, Counterfeit Gods, The Prodigal God, King’s Cross, and The Reason for God, Timothy Keller lives in New York City with his family.